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Can anyone tell me where I can find regular 60 gallon wine barrel racks with adjustable height feet? By barrel room is sloped at 1% from the walls to the drain in the middle of the barn and in some areas it would be nice to have just the bottom rack adjustable so I can level and stack the...

Post MLF I removed my 500L tank lid to find a very thin layer of what looked like some type of start of bacterial growth or perhaps left over ML nutrient that wasn’t consumed during MLF. SO2 is at 8ppm and MLF just finished Malic acid is at zero. . PH is 3.45 and no off smells or flavors. VA is...

I have a variable volume 500L tank that has been racked off the gross lees and was inoculated with MLB about a week ago. I performed paper chromatography and it would seem there is a start to the ML fermentation based on the results although no where near finishing (of course). This tank is...

I’d like to replace the factory marble airlock on my Marchisio 500L tanks with a standard S-shaped water airlock. Last season I used a #10 bung with the s-shaped airlock but the steel lip of the lid hole dug into the rubber and some debris could get into the wine. Just was not an elegant...

Heading into this years winemaking season I'm looking for a hook or some kind of hook like device that I can velcro my 2" must pump hose to and hang from the top lip of the tank to prevent it from flipping out of the tank and getting must everywhere. Has anyone seen a solution like this? Last...

This is my first season of wine making and I have many barrels that will need storing after first use and bottling. I’d like to use an SO2 and citric acid solution to fill each barrel until next use. What are the ratios of each and quantity of SO2 creates a safe environment so not to impart...

I purchased 70 new cases of bottles from morewinepro.com and because this is our first bottling I’m not sure if they should be sanitized before use. Again they are new, inside down in their cases on a wrapped pallet. I’m getting conflicting information from a local wine equipment supplier saying...

This question is related to racking vessels...I have 6 x 30 gallon barrels that have been aging on fine lees for about two months now (had previously settled out gross lees in steel tanks then racked into the oak barrels after 48 hours). I'm considering racking to get the wine off of whatever...